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Beginning with the monarchy the library situation among the Israelites appears more and more clearly to correspond with that of the surrounding nations. The first act recorded after the choice and proclamation of Saul as king, was the writing of a constitution by Samuel and the depositing of this in the sacred archives (I Sam. 10:25). This document (LXX biblion) was perhaps one of the documents ("words") of Samuel whose words (I Chron. 29, 29 history, chronicles, act, book, etc.) seem to have been possibly a register kept by him, perhaps from the time that he succeeded Eli, as later the high priestly register (Day-book) of Johannes Maccabeus was certainly kept